New Strategies in Science Communications

A discussion of new strategies in communications in development at universities and research institutions worldwide, spearheaded largely by Yale University, this approach builds "pathways of narrative coherence" and seeks to develop a new foundation of engagement between scientists and stakeholders for purposes of facilitating science understanding, activation, and uptake. The discipline, called Humanistic Communications, sets out an ambitious, holistic framework for research and capacity mobilization. Central to achieving the vision is a commitment to co-design and co-produce knowledge in collaboration with societal partners -- including science, policy and media institutions -- in order to facilitate solutions that better respond to the sustainability challenges facing society. Increasingly, the scientific community is seeking ways to engage with diverse decision-makers in government, the private sector, and civil society, and humanistic communications is offered as a method and framework to facilitate that process, and to deliver the products and services that society needs to address global sustainability challenges.

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Source: Ken Wilber, Wicked Problems